Google, Disney, and Apple may not be interested in buying Twitter, but another party—Salesforce—is still in talks to acquire the embattled social-media company, The New York Times reports. Salesforce C.E.O. Marc Benioff has talked openly about the potential for monetizing Twitter, particularly its advertising and e-commerce data assets. Even if a potential deal with Twitter is sending some Salesforce shareholders running for the hills—at its current diminished value of $11 billion, Twitter would still cost about 20 percent of Salesforce’s market capitalization—that doesn’t seem to be deterring Salesforce, which the Times says is still mulling a deal.

More important, C.E.O. Jack Dorsey is also now open to a sale, the Times reports, as long as Twitter would retain its integrity and remain intact. Twitter’s stock price has been a roller coaster over the past few weeks, rising about 35 percent, from $18 in the middle of last month, to $25 Wednesday, on acquisition rumors, only to plunge about 20 percent after Recode reported last week that Google, Apple, and Disney—three companies that were said to be interested in buying Twitter—weren’t likely to bid after all.

Twitter’s fluctuating stock price and swirling acquisition rumors are also having an impact on employee morale. Some employees are simply not showing up for work at all, while other lower-level employees are feeling “frustrated” about not knowing what’s happening to the company they work for, according to the Times. Layoffs could be on the way, too, and some of the coming casualties could reportedly include Twitter’s auxiliary businesses, including the flailing video social network Vine, which Twitter acquired in 2012, and mobile-developer platform Fabric, which Twitter has been unable to monetize.

In an upbeat internal memo sent to employees last week and reported by Bloomberg, Dorsey made no mention of the sales rumors. “We’re only limited by our sense of urgency,” Dorsey wrote in his memo. “Life is short. Every day matters. And the people who use Twitter every day deserve our best. They are why we’re here. So let’s show them what we’re made of and deliver a better Twitter faster than they thought possible. We can do this every day. We can do this!” It remains to be seen if Twitter will carry out Dorsey’s vision—which includes a multi-million-dollar live-streaming plan and partnerships with the likes of the N.F.L. and Bloomberg—independently, or if the company will ultimately be absorbed by a company like Salesforce.